nerium olender

i just bought one of these and looking it up on net it doesnt sound a good plant to have..can anyone tell me about what they think about it

 

I love and have them but then again I live in a hot climate!

I believe strongyloden and pete both have them, so they could advise on your climate.

 

it says it poisonas...did you know that

 

Yes ... most plants in my garden are poisonous ... Oleander (x two), Solanum (x three), Brugmansia (x one), Cestrum (x one), Poinsettia (x one) and the rest.

I don't like to be the bearer of bad news, but you can have more plants in your garden that are poisonous than are not.

I have three cats.

 

I agree with LOL, if we all grew plants that were not poisonous there would be a very sorry show in most gardens.
Given proper care they do us no harm or most animal for that matter, common sence approach to all plants is, unless you know exactly what it is, dont eat it.

 

Agree with Pete and LoL but just bear in mind, ALL parts of Oleanders are toxic. Many houseplants are toxic or at least harmful if eaten or the skin is exposed to the sap but we still keep them .

 

I have two oleanders. They tend to produce lots of buds, but the flowers only open if we have an exceptionally hot summer.

 

And if they take a bash from the frost (they are modestly frost hardy in London) they just don't seem to recover from it; they soldier on looking worse and worse until I pull them up.

 

Hi, jazid, long time no see!

They take light frost here but of course it is not prolonged like in the UK.

 

Mine recover OK. I've had one over 20 years, and it seems to have coped with winter a bit better than the two year old one.

 

We've two in pots that are moved under cover in winter. Last year up here in Scotland they produced flowers (some, but not a lot!) We've another that lives outside all year round and it has survived last winter without any damage at all even though I didn't wrap it as I usually do.

I knew oleander was toxic but it was only last year that I learned that the smoke from burning it is also toxic.

 

Rich and Dave, I think you should be propagating those plants that seem to survive OK.
They could be worth a mint, a hardy nerium oleander.

 

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Ours are grown from cuttings that 'came away in my hand' in Greece in 2003. They currently have a few basal shoots that I could pull off and try to root. :rolleyes:

 

Are they truly hardy do you think Dave, I mean, do they get frosted and still grow away in spring.

 

Lindl's are advertising Oleanders for sale in the current flier, I wonder if they'll have a 'toxic' warning, even our local GC here sells them without! :(